Comments on: Muttley Dastardly LLP: “A wholly unfamiliar level of fees”… http://charonqc.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/muttley-dastardly-llp-a-wholly-unfamiliar-level-of-fees/ UK law blog Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:21:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: charonqc http://charonqc.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/muttley-dastardly-llp-a-wholly-unfamiliar-level-of-fees/#comment-16766 charonqc Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:36:56 +0000 http://charonqc.wordpress.com/?p=902#comment-16766 Jacquig - good post! Thanks.... nothing wrong with a mini rant :-) Jacquig – good post!

Thanks…. nothing wrong with a mini rant :-)

]]> By: Jacquig http://charonqc.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/muttley-dastardly-llp-a-wholly-unfamiliar-level-of-fees/#comment-16764 Jacquig Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:25:14 +0000 http://charonqc.wordpress.com/?p=902#comment-16764 Speaking as one who just got paid for something I apparently did 10 years ago and have long forgotten but who is now supposed to pay tax on invoices rendered immediately notwithstanding when they get paid and when the Bar Council have said hourly rates are no way to run a modern business (without consulting me) and once got turned down for compulsory ie non-discretionary sip by a magistrate who exited left saying they get paid quite enough as it is .... argh a mini rant .. I am with the Judge if only because I don't know how to get away with it in family case but am so honourable i have recently kicked myself out of two cases when i thought my contribution was hors de combat more rant ripping off clients does not pay in the long run. I gave up more remunerative commercial work when i saw the rip off in action on consultancy fees. I would add something about giving lawyers a bad name except that is scarcely credible. Jacquig Speaking as one who just got paid for something I apparently did 10 years ago and have long forgotten but who is now supposed to pay tax on invoices rendered immediately notwithstanding when they get paid and when the Bar Council have said hourly rates are no way to run a modern business (without consulting me) and once got turned down for compulsory ie non-discretionary sip by a magistrate who exited left saying they get paid quite enough as it is …. argh a mini rant .. I am with the Judge if only because I don’t know how to get away with it in family case but am so honourable i have recently kicked myself out of two cases when i thought my contribution was hors de combat more rant ripping off clients does not pay in the long run. I gave up more remunerative commercial work when i saw the rip off in action on consultancy fees. I would add something about giving lawyers a bad name except that is scarcely credible.

Jacquig

]]> By: lawminx http://charonqc.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/muttley-dastardly-llp-a-wholly-unfamiliar-level-of-fees/#comment-16749 lawminx Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:52:23 +0000 http://charonqc.wordpress.com/?p=902#comment-16749 Dear Mr Muttley/ Mr Geeklawyer, One wonders if you will both, in the fullness of time amalgamate your respective business/practice in a sort of GIGANTIC Poly-Tesco-Law-Trust-Status-Mega-City Firm charging frankly SURREAL fees/extended refreshers under the name MuttleyGeek and Partners or GeekieMutt LLP or some such other amazing connotation. The City awaits your decision with baited breath even as Allen and Ovaries decide to declare themselves immediately bankrupt in the face of such competition.... Dear Mr Muttley/ Mr Geeklawyer,

One wonders if you will both, in the fullness of time amalgamate your respective business/practice in a sort of GIGANTIC Poly-Tesco-Law-Trust-Status-Mega-City Firm charging frankly SURREAL fees/extended refreshers under the name MuttleyGeek and Partners or GeekieMutt LLP or some such other amazing connotation.
The City awaits your decision with baited breath even as Allen and Ovaries decide to declare themselves immediately bankrupt in the face of such competition….

]]> By: charonqc http://charonqc.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/muttley-dastardly-llp-a-wholly-unfamiliar-level-of-fees/#comment-16717 charonqc Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:08:22 +0000 http://charonqc.wordpress.com/?p=902#comment-16717 Mr Geeklawyer: We had your clerk on the phone eighteen times this morning and twice this afternoon. He appears to be most assiduous in prosecuting the collection of fees and in the provision of statements at hourly intervals. I notice that your clerk's telephone number appears to be a Monaco number. Yet your email IP indicates that you appear to be in somewhere called Wolverhampton. I've just been told by The Foreign Office where Wolverhampton is. You have my sympathy - but, look on the bright side.... negative equity may well take longer to hit Wolverhampton. You may be sure that I shall lose no time at all in attending to your fee note. Kind regards per pro Matt Muttley Mr Geeklawyer: We had your clerk on the phone eighteen times this morning and twice this afternoon. He appears to be most assiduous in prosecuting the collection of fees and in the provision of statements at hourly intervals.

I notice that your clerk’s telephone number appears to be a Monaco number. Yet your email IP indicates that you appear to be in somewhere called Wolverhampton. I’ve just been told by The Foreign Office where Wolverhampton is.

You have my sympathy – but, look on the bright side…. negative equity may well take longer to hit Wolverhampton.

You may be sure that I shall lose no time at all in attending to your fee note.

Kind regards

per pro

Matt Muttley

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://charonqc.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/muttley-dastardly-llp-a-wholly-unfamiliar-level-of-fees/#comment-16716 Geeklawyer Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:33:42 +0000 http://charonqc.wordpress.com/?p=902#comment-16716 I'm with Allen & Ovaries here. Good lawyers should be paid their dues. So should bad ones. And, in the interests of justice, a barrister's fee note should always be paid. Ideally, twice. I’m with Allen & Ovaries here. Good lawyers should be paid their dues. So should bad ones.

And, in the interests of justice, a barrister’s fee note should always be paid. Ideally, twice.

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